Blake Snyder’s story beats have proved useful to me in the past in helping me structure a longer piece of fiction. In my current work in progress, I’m using them to structure a thriller of sorts. But I have been writing horror on the side too. Snyder’s structure doesn’t quite work for horror though. NotContinue reading “Scare the Cat”
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NaNoWriMo GO!
National Novel Writing Month – Everyone is talking about it on Twitter and Facebook. It is November and now everyone is scrambling to make 1,667 words a day. Everyone, that is, except me. And why not me? Because I am making NaNoWriMo work for me rather than really participating in the event like some panickedContinue reading “NaNoWriMo GO!”
Don’t get it right…
I used to have a bit of a problem. No, wait! Dn’t go. I promise this isn’t some sort of horrendous personal issue or pictures of my weird junk! I swear. No, my problem was I had to make sure every paragraph, every sentence, every damn word… was perfect. Editing was what other people didContinue reading “Don’t get it right…”
Imagine Erratically 